Application for new members

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Criteria for membership

That the candidate member runs an active curriculum of professional practical training (including regularly creating journalistic products) and the curriculum achieves integration of theory and practice of journalism;

That students are taught a variety of journalistic methods to bring them to a professional level of competence;

That a full cycle of teaching has been completed and the teaching programme has been running for three years;

That the training center does not depend on a political party or any group involving social, political, ideological religious or racial discrimination;

That if the training center does depend on a single press group, its student membership is not limited to employees of that group but is open to the general public and that the curriculum does not constitute a programme of in-house training;

That the training center accepts students without discrimination on social, political, ideological, religious or racial grounds and without conditions or obligations as to future jobs and employers;

That the training center does not operate as a commercial organisation trading for profit (to be discussed with the EJTA representative visiting your school).

Membership applications must be submitted before the end of February. The application should describe the statutes, the curricula and the number of students in journalism. If the applying member has a national accreditation, the report should also be included.

2. If the Board evaluates the application positively, the applicant gets a detailed outline of the procedure from the EJTA Office. This is a summary:• An EJTA Board member will visit the applicant’s institution. The applicant covers the expenses (travel, stay) of this assessment visit.• The Board member will write a recommendation for the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The Board will circulate this recommendation to the members no later than 30 days prior to the AGM.• The candidate member gives a presentation (7 minutes) about the institution and the reasons for wanting to become a member; after that the Annual General Meeting votes on admission.• If admitted, the new member will get a discount of 500 euro of the yearly fee in the first year (May – December) of membership. This means that the first year’s fee is 250 Euro.